2019-10-11 – 2019-10-12 · Arthur, IL · 📍 Downtown · State championship
Reps: CHARLIE BRINZA, TINA WELLER · Prize money: $11,250.00
Grand Champion: QUE U (699.4172) · 43 teams
Reserve Champion: 🥈 JaBs BBQ
Overall totals, every team on the board — tall stacks are where the pack sat.
Every board on one scale — the bar runs last score to first, the dot is the median.
What it has taken to win here, 2013 to 2019 — this edition picked out.
Everything below is read straight out of the results — the number on each card is the one that made it a story.
Closer than 87% of the 4,742 championships in the data
The Grand Championship was decided by 0.6056 points — closer than 87% of every championship in the data.
The ratings favoured the top seed the other 90 times in 100
QUE U came in rated below the field's top team, IOWA'S SMOKEY D'S BBQ, and took the Grand Championship anyway — roughly a 10-in-100 shot on pre-contest ratings.
This was QUE U's first Grand Championship in the data — it arrived at their 37th tracked contest.
2 of 4 tracked editions
QUAU has won this contest 2 times across its 4 tracked editions.
Chicken places 2–3: JaBs BBQ and HATFIELD AND MCCOY BARBECUE tied on 175.4172 — settled by the KCBS tiebreaker. Chicken places 8–9: ONE2BBQ and HIGH ON THE HAWG tied on 173.7028 — settled by the KCBS tiebreaker. Pork Ribs places 5–6: BIG "E" BBQ and SMOKE FREAKS tied on 173.1200 — settled by the KCBS tiebreaker.
QUE U took the title on 4 calls from 4 meats, with 1 outright win — their weakest board was pork ribs at 9th.
QUAU turned in 178.8572 in brisket — past the 178.2972 that had stood across 3 earlier editions.
Past winners of this contest cooked this edition: QUAU (won 2013, 2015).
This contest was away for 4 years — the previous tracked edition ran on 2015-10-09.
| Date | Where | Venue | Teams | High score | Grand Champion | Reserve Champion |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2013-10-11 | Arthur, IL | Arthur, IL | 53 | 704.5716 | QUAU | THE SMOKE HUNTERS |
| 2014-10-10 | Arthur, IL | Arthur, IL 61911 | 37 | 683.9544 | IT'S 5 O'CLOCK SOMEWHERE | JUGS BBQ |
| 2015-10-09 | Arthur, IL | Arthur, IL 61911 | 48 | 702.2744 | QUAU | ALL IN QUE |
| 2019-10-11 ← this one | Arthur, IL | Downtown | 43 | 699.4172 | QUE U | JaBs BBQ |
| 2022-09-30 | Arthur, IL | — | — | — | — | — |
| Category | 1st | 5th | 10th |
|---|---|---|---|
| Chicken | 175.4400 | 174.8572 | 173.1084 |
| Pork Ribs | 176.0000 | 173.1200 | 169.1200 |
| Pork | 178.8800 | 175.4516 | 173.1316 |
| Brisket | 178.8572 | 175.4172 | 173.1200 |
43 entries · top 699.4172 · median 665.6344
43 entries · top 175.4400 · median 169.7028
43 entries · top 176.0000 · median 163.4288
43 entries · top 178.8800 · median 166.2400
43 entries · top 178.8572 · median 167.3828